Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1675 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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GOOD: This is some wonderful news. The process is still not complete but the right decision appears imminent. Tele-communications are going to be seen as public utilities, equally open to all. There is still a vote to go, so it wouldn't hurt to write the FCC once again and tell them you support Chairman Wheeler's draft.

The head of the FCC just proposed the strongest net neutrality rules ever

BAD: This is why FCC Chairman Wheeler's plan is so important. Left to their own devices tele-communications companies would strip you down to you skives.

Time Warner Cable's 97 Percent Profit Margin on High-Speed Internet Service Exposed

2015/02/04

Mongoose: Peter Mattis on 4 Flawed US Intelligence Assumptions

Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Ineptitude, Office of Management and Budget, Officers Call

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Provocative.

4 U.S. Intelligence Assumptions That Need to Go

Peter Mattis, The National Interest

The flaws in this intelligence-reform mentality are four-fold—and each plays a role in how proposals like Brennan’s reported reforms are generated and discussed, as well as past reforms such as creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. First, many intelligence-reform proponents conflate the very different disciplines of what we normally think of as intelligence and security intelligence, which includes activities like counterterrorism. Second, the problems with the CIA and the U.S. Intelligence Community are organizational. Third, security stovepipes no longer reflect modern intelligence concerns. Finally, they assume U.S. intelligence agencies are basically the same, making centralization and reducing duplication effective means of improving intelligence performance.

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2015/02/04

Robin Good: Future Journalism – Curation & Trust

Ethics, Media

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Valuable insight for those interested in seeing how news curation and editor's choice approaches in journalism can benefit both the publisher and its audience a lot more than simply picking and aggregating interesting stories from other sites. One key relevant difference between aggregating news stories from other sources and editorially curated content is the role of the curator, a tangible person with specific value and ethics who readers come to respect, identify with and ultimately trust for his / her choices in what they should be paying attention to. Curation and trust may indeed form the basis of a new symbiotic [HUMAN] relationship between information seekers and subject-matter expert curators that will gradually displace the value of traditional algorithmic search.

The Future of News Journalism Will Be Built Around Curation and Trust

2015/02/04

Berto Jongman: War Is New Normal — Stop It!

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Media, Military, Officers Call

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War Is the New Normal: Seven Deadly Reasons Why America’s Wars Persist

How do we inoculate our children against such a permanent state of war and the war state itself? I have one simple suggestion: just stop it. All of it.

by William Astore, CommonDreams

LIST ONLY: 1. The privatization of war; 2. The embrace of the national security state by both major parties; 3. “Support Our Troops” as a substitute for thought; 4. Fighting a redacted war; 5. Threat inflation; 6. Defining the world as a global battlefield; 7. The new “normal” in America is war. Read full article.

2015/02/04

SchwartzReport: Treason at the Top — “National Security” Pork Over Education, Infrastructure, Family, and Everything Else

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, DoD, Government, Military, Officers Call

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We have grossly inadequate funding for schools, infrastructure, elder care, child-care, and a host of other programs and projects that create a more compassionate and life-affirming society. But, boy, the dollars fall like a blizzard on the military industrial security industries. Here is the real truth of where you tax dollars are going. The sums are so large I think they are essentially incomprehensible to ordinary people.

America’s Real National Security Budget — A Trillion Dollars a Year

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2015/02/032015/02/03

Graphic: ISIS Ubber Alles by John Robb

Analysis, Multinational Plus, Threats, Tribes

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Source

Tip of the Hat to Eagle.

2015/02/03

John Robb: Bringing Down the (Corrupt) USA

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency

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Exploiting the Robocaller Gap

Here's an interesting US systempunkt — a systempunkt is the point in a big network where even a small attack would cause the entire network to fail. This systempunkt would enable a prepared individual the unique ability to shut down a large part of the US without shedding a drop of blood. For example, this attack has the ability to:

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